2010 Stories by Michael E. Miller

published Sep 03, 2010

They grow their boys a little bigger here in Georgia.
But as our mother always told us, size doesn't matter. Right?
The speedy Miami Central Rockets start their season tonight against the heavy...
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published Aug 31, 2010

​It's 7 p.m. on a Thursday, and Traz Powell Stadium is buzzing. Helmets crunch and penalty flags fly as two local high school teams -- the Northwestern Bulls and the Norland Vikings -- slug out a pr...
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published September 2, 2010

published Aug 27, 2010

​Like countries in a Middle East arms race, Miami-area high school football teams have spent the last nine months developing top-secret weapons to unload on their unsuspecting opponents.Trick plays,...
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published Aug 26, 2010

​In the late '80s and early '90s, The Button South in Hallandale was the place for punk and heavy metal. Every night, sweaty hordes of South Floridians would converge to rock out, head-bang, and hai...
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FEATURED STORY

published Aug 26, 2010

​Local high school Miami Central has the second best football team in the nation, according to a new poll by USA Today.The poll pointed to Central's 12 returning starters (six on offense, six on def...
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published Aug 25, 2010

​Kendrick Meek will not miss Jeff Greene. Like that guy at your party who shows up uninvited, plays Kelly Clarkson so loud the cops come, and then bolts before you're handed a noise violation, Green...
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published Aug 24, 2010

​Like a pair of Tara Reid implants, some things are just too fake to pass. A few weeks ago, Riptide reported on the bizarre hiring of new Solid Waste Director Fred Hobson, handed a $100K job despite...
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published Aug 24, 2010

​Two weeks ago New Times reported on the controversy surrounding Rise Academy, a Florida City charter school shut down after only two years in existence despite a dramatic "F" to "A" turnaround.Toda...
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published August 26, 2010

FEATURED STORY

published Aug 23, 2010

​Fascists. Communists. Cartels. For Emilio Izquierdo, there is no linguistic limit to the depravity of Miami-Dade's limousine industry and the public officials who are supposed to regulate it.For fi...
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FEATURED STORY

published Aug 20, 2010

Yesterday scientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a report on the dangers to humans and wildlife still posed by the gigantic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of...
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published Aug 19, 2010

​Carolina Garcia-Aguilera has got one kick-ass job. Not that New Times is jealous - after all, we spend most of our time writing about how to smother your boyfriend or have sex with appliances - but...
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FEATURED STORY

published Aug 18, 2010

​A day after ex-prez Bill Clinton turned on the smiles for U.S. Senate-hopeful Kendrick Meek, none other than President Obama himself is set to visit Miami today to stump for the Democratic candidat...
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published Aug 17, 2010

​Cuban dissident Ariel Sigler Amaya is recovering slowly but successfully from his seven-and-a-half-year stint in a Castro prison.Sigler, 46, began physical therapy last week at Jackson Memorial Hos...
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published August 19, 2010

FEATURED STORY

published Aug 16, 2010

​When Miami's director of solid waste management quit earlier this summer, city officials were sent scrambling for a replacement. They quickly hired Fred Hobson, a former assistant director of solid...
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published Aug 13, 2010

​Do you find yourself unconsciously smashing things: strangers on the street, shopping carts, trash cans, or stray poodles? Do you have an irresistible urge to sprint until you puke; wear a jockstra...
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published Aug 10, 2010

​This weekend's vicious attack on Tampa-area gardener Ralph St. Peter by a swarm of bees has Riptide wondering: How in hell does somebody get attacked by bees? More important, how do we keep their h...
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published August 12, 2010

published Aug 09, 2010

​We love our neighbors across the Gulf. Like bright, beautiful, nonsensical birds, they make the jail cells of our daily lives that much more colorful. Take their politicians.
While Barack Obama is...
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published Aug 04, 2010

​Fourteen-hour work days in ungodly heat in a city full of Al-Qaeda operatives and insurgents intent on killing you. Daily visits from soldiers whose minds have been shredded, if not by shrapnel tha...
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